Distinguished Scholar Award presented to Professor Steve Jones

During the January 2014 MLA meeting in Chicago, Steve Jones was presented with the Keats-Shelley Association's Distinguished Scholar Award. His former student, Orianne Smith, now Associate Professor of English at University of Maryland Baltimore, introduced Jones.

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Health Sciences

Loyola University Chicago health sciences researchers have received a $500,000 grant for a 10-year study to improve the health of low-income minority residents in communities surrounding the University’s Health Sciences Campus in Maywood.

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Robert A. Seal, dean of university libraries at Loyola University Chicago, is the 2015 ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. The award recognizes an outstanding member of the library profession who has made a significant contribution to librarianship.

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School of Law

Weinberg receives University’s top teaching honor

Clinical Professor of Law Anita Weinberg (JD ’86), director of Loyola’s ChildLaw Policy Institute, was awarded the first Ignatius Loyola Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Faculty Convocation last fall.

Arts & Sciences

For the past few years, members of Loyola’s Chemistry and Biochemistry Department have taken part in Project SEED, a program that gives high school students a first-hand look at life inside a laboratory.

Quinlan

Quinlan’s annual Whiteboard Competition gives students three minutes with a whiteboard and felt pen to pitch their ideas and inventions. And in April, Quinlan will launch a new challenge for budding entrepreneurs.

Giving back

Late last fall, when most professors were handing back papers, one Quinlan instructor did something a little different: She gave out money. See how Jenna Drenten’s gesture in honor of her late sister inspired her students.

Arts & Sciences

Loyola students studying science or math will get a chance to start their research earlier than ever—thanks to the University’s new First-Year Research Experience, which lets undergraduates work directly with faculty members.

Research

Loyola psychology professor Grayson Holmbeck has been studying children with spina bifida for more than 20 years. In that time, he says: “We’ve learned a lot about what their problems and issues are, what we can do to help them, and more importantly, what they’re capable of.”

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Quinlan Professor Nenad Jukić was named Loyola’s Faculty Member of the Year on September 14 as part of the University’s Faculty Convocation. This latest award caps off a string of impressive accolades for Jukić, who also was named Quinlan’s Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher of the Year.

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Helping others

Students receive prestigious Schweitzer Fellowships

Four Loyola graduate students were recently selected for the prestigious Albert Schweitzer Fellowship program and will spend the next year working on healthcare-related projects to help underserved communities in Chicago.

Sustainability

Loyola is ranked No. 4 on the Sierra Club’s 2014 list of the greenest colleges in America. The annual rankings are designed to spotlight universities that are deeply committed to environmental responsibility.